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Mayerthorpe Freelancer, 21 Apr 2004 - Find Out The Chilling Facts About Drug Use And Learn If Your Kids Are At Risk Mayerthorpe Freelancer -- Do you think drug abuse is an issue left for big cities, think again. Find out the chilling facts about drug use and learn if your kids are at risk.

Deseret News, 24 Nov 2002 - Hundreds of marijuana plants are burned in the village of Cakran, about 70 miles south of Tirana, Albania, Saturday during a campaign against drug cultivation in Albanian villages. The anti-trafficking and anti-corruption initiative is part of Albania's efforts toward integration with the rest of Europe. - --- MAP posted-by: Beth

Hindustan Times, 04 May 2002 - The poorest country in Europe, Albania, has grown into a major transit point for the drug traffic between Asia and the west. Albanian and foreign criminal groups fixed on Albania for its geographical position and turned it into a transit country for drugs being shipped to western Europe, said former Interior Minister Spartak Poci.

Irish Independent, 19 Feb 2002 - SKOPJE -- EXTREMIST Albanian rebels seeking to start a new round of conflict in the southern Balkans have bought millions of pounds worth of weapons with the proceeds of heroin smuggling from Afghanistan to the streets of a dozen European capitals. Senior drug trade analysts from the United Nations Drug Control Programme in Vienna and Western police officials say much of the heroin being sold in countries such as Austria, Germany and Switzerland is starting to come from multi-billion pound stocks of Afghan heroin in Central Asia. Much of it is controlled by al-Qa'ida and the former Taliban regime.

Business Week, 23 Mar 2000 - THE PRICE IS DROPPING FAST It's a normal workday in the town of Himare, which is to say the townspeople aren't doing much at all. In fact, the whole place is bathed in an almost narcotic stupor. Only a bunch of snazzily dressed young men sipping cappuccino underneath the palm trees by the wharfside cafe seem to be engaged in any business. ''Fifty kilos?